Canada’s long-term involvement in Afghanistan will be centre-stage when Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits down with leaders from 60 countries for this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago. The prime minister will be facing pressure from the U.S. and other allies to commit money to help cover the $4.1-billion per year that will be needed to […]

The number of Canadian soldiers deployed to Afghanistan may shrink in the coming months as Afghan forces take more responsibility and NATO looks to pull out up to 1,000 military trainers, a senior NATO officer confirmed Monday

By Mark Kennedy PERTH, Australia — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says “significant risks” remain for Canadians serving as military trainers in Afghanistan. He made his comments Sunday after the death of a Canadian military trainer — the first since the training mission began earlier this year — who lost his life after his convoy was […]

By Lee Berthiaume OTTAWA — Canadian military trainers helped defend a NATO compound in Kabul last week when Taliban insurgents launched a dramatic attack against the U.S. Embassy and surrounding neighbourhood that killed 16 Afghans and wounded dozens more. This revelation, combined with assertions from a senior military official on Thursday that the Canadian Forces […]

Amanda Anderson contacted me by email when I was still in Afghanistan earlier this year. She had seen some of my blogging, seen the sketches, and then followed the white rabbit through the internet hole, till it eventually took her to a sketch I did when I was in Kandahar four years ago. The sketch […]